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Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Act 2011
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33(1)Tendered ballot papers must be a different colour from the other ballot papers.
(2)A person in Northern Ireland who marks a tendered ballot paper in reliance on Case 7 or 8 in rule 32 must sign the paper, unless it is marked after an application was refused under rule 30 or 31.
(3)If a tendered ballot paper is required to be signed under paragraph (2) and the paper is not signed, the paper is void.
(4)Tendered ballot papers must be given to the presiding officer instead of being put into the ballot box.
(5)On receiving a tendered ballot paper from a voter the presiding officer must endorse it with the voter’s name and number on the register of electors.
(6)The presiding officer must set tendered ballot papers aside in a separate packet.
(7)The name and number on the register of electors of every voter whose vote is marked in pursuance of rule 32 must be entered on a list (in these rules referred to as the “tendered votes list”).
(8)In the case of a person voting as proxy for an elector, the number to be endorsed or entered together with the voter’s name is the elector’s number.
(9)In the case of an elector who has an anonymous entry, the references in paragraphs (5) and (7) to the name of the voter are to be ignored.
(10)In the case of a person in respect of whom a notice has been issued under section 13B(3B) or (3D) or 13BA(9) of the 1983 Act, the references in paragraphs (5) and (7) to the voter’s number on the register of electors are to be read as references to the number relating to the voter on the notice.
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